Folding chair or settee



(No Model.)

2 SheetsSheet 2.

H. 'J. HARWOOD.

FOLDING 0mm 0R SETTEE.

No; 315,617. Patented Apr. 14, 1885..

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HERBERT JOSEPH HARW'OOD, OF LITTLETON, ASSIGNOR, BY MESN E ASSIGN- IMENTS, TO THE HARWOOD MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF LEOMIN- STER,MASSACHUSETTS.

FOLDING CHAIR OR SETTEE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 315,617, datedAprill-t, 1885.

Application filed May 26, 1884.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HERBERT JosEPH HAR- WOOD, of Littleton, in thecounty of Middlesex, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,

have invented a new and useful Improvement in Folding Chairs or Settees;and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the followingspecification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which--Figure l is a front elevation, Fig. 2 a rear elevation, Fig. 3 an endview, and Fig. 4 a transverse section, of a settee in a folded state andprovided with my invention, the nature of which is defined in the claimshereinafter I 5 presented. Fig. 5 is a transverse section taken throughone of the divisions or chairs of such settee when it is in an unfoldedstate or ready for use.

in this settee each seat A can be turned 23 either upward or downwardrelatively to the back B, each front leg, a, and back part, I), being inone piece. Each seat is arrangedbetween and pivoted to two of theconnected back parts and front legs, and when up be- 2 5 comes stoppedagainst a horizontal rail or bar, 0, or elastic hunters projectingtherefrom, such bar connecting all the front legs. W'hen down for aperson to sit upon it-,the seat abuts against the lower edge of the backor elastic 3'0 hunters projecting therefrom. The pivotal connections ofeach seat with the legs are shown at f and 9, those marked g being thebearings for the pivots of the parts marked f.

The several back posts, 6, are connected by 3 5 a bar, D, going from oneto the other of them in rear of the backs. The rear legs, 0, areconnected by a rail or bar, E, each of such rear legs being disposeddirectly in rear of one of the front legs, which at its rear has formed40 in it an angular-notch, d, to receive therear leg at its upper end,and serve as a stop to aid in holding it in its rearmost position. Thesaid rear leg at its upper part is hinged to the front leg by beingextended between and connected 4,5 by a jointpin, p, to two brackets ormetallic plates, 6, formed as represented, and applied and fastened toopposite sides of the front leg (No model.)

and projectingrearward therefrom, the whole being so as to enable therear legs either to be turned simultaneously outwardly into angu 5o larpositions relatively to the front legs, as shown in Fig. 5, and when soto bear against the lower edges of the notches thereof, or to be movedtoward or folded into parallelism,

or nearly so, with the front legs, as shown in Fig. 4.

In the place of notches, abutments 'or studs to answer the purposethereof may be eX- tended from the front legs.

From the above it will be seen that theseat, when down,is supported byits pivots and the back rail, 21, and not in the upper ends of the rearlegs, and that such legs do not cross the front legs.

It will be obvious that a single chair may he made with each of its backposts and front legs in one piece of material, and the front legs beconnected by a bar, the back legs being also joined by a bar, and thateach back leg may be notched to receive the upper part of the front leg,and be connected to such front leg by a pivotal pin and two plates orbrackets, as hereinbefore described.

Such a chair,when in a folded state,willhave its legs, seat, and back inpositions as shown i in Fig. 4.

I am aware that school-deskshave been constructed in which the front ofone desk is the back of the seat of the desk in front. and that in suchconstruction the seat is hinged so that when it is down its rear edgebears under the front of the desk behind.

My device is a distinct organization in itself, independent of' anyother device,and differs from the above. 85

What I claim isl. The back B, having back rail, 12, and itsstrengtheningrail D, just above such rail 2), and the front legs, a, andtheir back parts, b, in combination with the seats A, pivoted to suchfront legs in front of the rail b, whereby when the seat is down itsrear edge rests against the rail 12 and the whole is braced by the railD, as set forth.

' bears against the inner edge of the bar 0, as

set forth.

3. In a folding chair, the front legs having the rear notch, d, incombination with the 10 rear legs, a, and the bar E, forming the soleconnection of such rear legs, as set forth.

HERBERT JOSEPH HARWOOD. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, E. B. PRATT.

